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Cosmic Microwave Background - what is going on?
22 December 2010 > AstronomyA post at www.dailygalaxy.com December 20th has the title, 'Epic Discovery Update: We are One of Many Universes', a story taken from a paper available

Oz and the weather
22 December 2010 > Climate changeAt www.physorg.com/print2120041103.html ... we have some nice pictures of snow in Australia - in December. It's supposed to be summer down under but some icy gusts

Ice Ages
22 December 2010 > GeologyThe New York Times (see www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/world/middleeast/18deadsea.html ) has picked up on the story of the Dead Sea sediment cores that are currently being drilled out

A Deep Sea waterway
21 December 2010 > GeologyAt http://geology.com/noaa/sulawesi-sea/ .... this is an interesting piece of reseach as the Sulwesi Sea even during the Ice Age was a water-way and a barrier

Some results from the Large Hadron Collider
21 December 2010 > PhysicsAt www.physorg.com/print211983845.html ... the large hadron collider has found no signature of microscopic black holes produced in high energy proton-proton collisions. They are predicted to

Dusty Plasma ... and tribulations of an EU proselytiser
19 December 2010 > ElectromagnetismThe Plasma Universe Wikipedia-like Encyclopedia has some interesting entries (see www.plasma-universe.com/Dusty_plasma/ ). This one, with the title 'dusty plasma', sets out to describe precisely what this

All quiet on the front - the latest survey at Stonehenge has gone silent
19 December 2010 > ArchaeologyAt www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1337890/ ... it's all gone quiet on the geophysical survey around Stonehenge which just a couple of months ago was all over the media.

The Magnetic Field of the Earth
18 December 2010 > ElectromagnetismAt www.wired.com/wiredscience/2-1-/12/magnetic-copper-slag/ .... it seems that copper slag from Iron Age smelting activities at Khirbet es/Nahu in NE Jordan and from Timna in what is

Mars - spreading volcano
16 December 2010 > GeologyAt http://specialpaper.gsapubs.org/content/470/115.abstract 'Is Tharsis, Mars, a spreading volcano?' - it is thought Tharsis Rise on Mars is spreading outwards and that has produced rifting at

Plasma and Magnetic Fields
16 December 2010 > ElectromagnetismNASA has another story to delight - the Cassini spacecraft took images of enormous clouds of plasma periodically blooming around Saturn, moving the planet 'like

NASA News
15 December 2010 > AstronomyAt http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/ we have a video clip and a story on a sunspot eruption way back in August (see also www.dailygalaxy.com december 14th). What prompted the

Aztec Blood Ritual
15 December 2010 > ArchaeologyThere are two articles so far in what will be a three part series on Aztec blood rituals - sacrifice. See www.archnews.co.uk/featured/3722-the-purpose-of-aztec-blood-rituals.htm and www.archnews.co.uk/featured/4282-the-purpose-of-aztec-blood-rituals-part-2.htm ...

Prehistoric Footprints at Formby
15 December 2010 > GeologyThe footprints are said to date back some 5000 to 6000 years ago, see www.archnews.co.uk/world-archaeology/uk-archaeology/4216-prehistoric-human-footprints.html and it seems a lot of amateurs have been scouring

Israel Antiquities Authority
15 December 2010 > ArchaeologyFor those interested in Biblical archaeology - or revisions with a slant towards the archaeology of the Levant, you may be interested to learn the

Naughty Maoris
15 December 2010 > ArchaeologyAt www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/14/3092679.html ... apparently, scientists have found evidence that 40 per cent of the canopy forest in the South Island of New Zealand was incinerated

Victor Clube at the 2010 Conference on Quantavolution
13 December 2010 > CatastrophismThe talk is available for download from http://www.2010-q-conference.com/globalwarmingand/index.html ... the talk has the title, 'Global Warming and the Disallowed Protestant Calendar' but has nothing to
A crocodile - but different
12 December 2010 > BiologyAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101210094416.htm ... a paper in the Journal of Vertebrae Paleontology 30 (December 8th) has come up with some interesting biological differences, as it seems

Integrity?
12 December 2010 > Climate changeAt http://johnosullivan.livejournal.com/26669.html ... Kevin Trenberth, IPCC lead author and matey boy with Phil Jones of UEA notoriety, has rushed to defend a peculiar study that

Worlds in Collision
11 December 2010 > PhysicsAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209141130.htm .... worlds in collision - actually bashing up against each other - is one hypothesis of the early solar system now being floated. An

Cosmic Fireworks
10 December 2010 > CatastrophismAt http://cosmictusk.com there is suddenly a flurry of posts after a long period of inactivity - on meteorites and fireballs. For example, a fireball train